Development Strategy Manager (Data Centers)

Location: Hybrid, based at one of these US locations: Denver, CO; Phoenix, AZ; Quincy, WA; Santa Clara, CA; or Ashburn, VA. The schedule is 3 days in-office and 2 days flexible.

Salary: $145,000–$155,000 base salary annually, plus bonus

Company

hirify.global designs and operates data centers across North America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific for hyperscalers, cloud providers, and large enterprises.

What you will do

• Translate market intelligence, customer demand, portfolio priorities, infrastructure constraints, regulatory considerations, and commercial requirements into decision-ready development recommendations.
• Support market prioritization, site strategy, customer-led and proactive opportunities, asset positioning, phasing, power, scheduling, and leasing strategy.
• Prepare customer materials, site briefs, executive presentations, Board materials, investor materials, and recurring development reporting.
• Maintain site comparison analyses, total cost of ownership models, portfolio dashboards, market opportunity trackers, and source-of-truth datasets.
• Support scenario planning, funnel conversion analysis, inventory coverage analysis, leasing target analysis, and portfolio readouts.
• Partner with marketing, sales, product, legal, finance, development, and operations teams while improving CRM, leasing, finance, and commercial tooling.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Legal, Economics, Real Estate, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in commercial strategy, enterprise deal execution, contract structuring, commercial operations, development strategy, or a related discipline.
• Experience supporting large, multi-stakeholder enterprise opportunities in RFP-driven or structured sales environments.
• Exposure to technology, data centers, telecommunications, infrastructure, financial services, real estate, or other capital-intensive industries.
• Strong financial acumen, commercial modeling, pricing methodology, enterprise contract mechanics, documentation, communication, and presentation skills.
• Ability to work from one of the listed US locations on a hybrid schedule with 3 days in-office.

Nice to have

• MBA or professional accounting qualification.
• Experience with recurring and non-recurring revenue structures, SLAs, penalties, indexation, and governance frameworks.

Culture & Benefits

• No Ego and No Arrogance culture focused on mutual support, respect, and collaboration.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability coverage, and employee assistance.
• Paid time off and a 401(k) program with company match.
• Training, development, recognition, and additional voluntary benefits.
• Travel of up to 10% is expected and may increase as the business evolves.